Example sentences of "the [noun pl] as it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing was clear : it was as important to clear away the vegetation close to the ramparts as It was to maintain the ramparts themselves . |
| 2 | In many societies David McKnight tells me the man who does the circumcision who actually chops off the foreskins as it were , owes you a wife for it and he says in many of them if you give a man your foreskin then you 've got a right to demand a wife . |
| 3 | At this stage you will notice that no attempt has been made to count the words as it was not possible to use the macro record facility for this operation . |
| 4 | yes I allow the plaintiffs appeal and dismiss the defendants as it were cross appeal from the order in erm it 's the August er taxing master right of the twelfth , twelfth of August is n't it ? |
| 5 | Was n't it just as neat and unlikely to blame the parents as it was to talk about possession by devils ? |
| 6 | It 's as difficult for the stewards as it is for us , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Life was fraught enough for the Stevenses as it was , with the constant care of Jennifer , without her adding to their problems , and besides , she had come to value her privacy and her independence . |
| 8 | Their Lordships held that such consent can not be given or implied by a course of conduct over the years as it is important in the interests of both the local authority and the public that consent should not be accidental or informal . |
| 9 | It 's all round the buildings as it was then , you know houses all ba all built , all just in see where me mother lives , it was like there were three bedrooms and erm and a back room and a front room , and a basement room , so that you could . |
| 10 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 11 | Very good at words , not so good at , at , at actions and actually delivering the goods as it were |
| 12 | activates the lights as it 's approaching the crossing . |
| 13 | When fitting 8 spokes all the load is on the studs as it is with RR wheels and should only be used with the larger studs . |
| 14 | At rehearsals , Les Cox agreed it would be wiser not to practise falling down the stairs as it was a skill which took months to acquire — better just to go for it on the night . |
| 15 | Try and do the sums as it were and think it through , and if you do that , I think you 'll see that er , it does work out this way And of course , it gets er , even worse if you consider questions like relatedness through parents , because clearly I may be related to my mother 's sister 's children , my cousins , er no it 's actually nieces , because my mother and her sister share genes , but I 'm not er necessarily related erm in the same way , erm , through er , my father 's er relatives , for example , because although erm , because my er , my , my relationship between mother 's kin and my father 's kin is purely through marriage , so they have no joint genetic relatedness . |
| 16 | This is avidly collected by the locals as it is delicious boiled and pickled . |
| 17 | The arrangement of the signs and symbols is designed to encourage a deepening awareness of their " pointing-towards " character ; the deeper we penetrate behind the scenes as it were of the various words and actions , the closer can they be seen to become because all alike are pointing towards that Mystery which is beyond straightforward conceptual understanding . |
| 18 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 19 | Well th you know the arms as it is now at ? |
| 20 | Taking into account everything everybody said the formats as it is , course outline after course outline goes your individual bit , right ? |
| 21 | She must remain discreetly in the background — in the wings as it were — being ever attentive to Anne 's requirements and reputation , and acting with prudence and discretion whensoever the need arose . |
| 22 | There 's a lot erm , women do a lot of voluntary work round the hospitals as it is , but it 's never they 're never wrote about when they go |
| 23 | The parents were the only variable and even they did n't vary much ; their reactions followed a predictable pattern as well understood by the police as it was by the kidnappers . |
| 24 | But part of the reason is that a lot of the masses as it were , do actually like watching him bumbling around getting muddled up and so on and so forth . |
| 25 | In short , patchiness , in space and time , is as much a feature of the oceans as it is of land ; indeed , ‘ patchiness ’ is a great principle in ecology — though it is rarely singled out as such . |
| 26 | There was an added incentive this year for the students as it was their last opportunity to catch the eye of Sue Rich , captain and selector of the British Team for the World Student Games which take place later this year . |
| 27 | What I want , would like to see , and I think is in your interest and the public 's interest is actually to , to not just be responding but to be , to be reactive but to be pro-active , and to be going out onto the streets as it were . |
| 28 | His stance is as much an attempt to influence the outcomes as it is a prediction of the likely consequences of the Act . |
| 29 | So in all these kinds of different ways , religion provides succour erm , gratification and er , is the fulfilment of people 's wishes , particularly th their frustrations , their erm , feelings of er being the victims as it were , of the world , can be satisfied to some extent by religious belief , which holds out some , some prospect of and hope , at least in the afterlife , if not , if not in this life . |